Musical Terms

Apart from numerous references to singing, song and musical instruments in the Psalms (stringed instruments are mentioned in the titles of Ps 4, Ps 6, Ps 54, Ps 67, Ps 76 and a variety of instruments feature in other psalms (e.g. Ps 150)), there are a number of...

What Do We Sing About?

Derek Walker says in the February edition of ‘Christianity’ magazine, ‘if we don’t give our minds tangible content to grab hold of, our thoughts will wander.’ Certainly, we need to ensure that our singing is comprised of Biblical truth, which is why it is so good to...

Why Do We Sing?

Why do we sing? Singing seems to be a fundamental human response to different circumstances, something that is ‘wired into’ us by God. It doesn’t matter whether we are a nightingale or a crow; we tend to enjoy singing aloud, even if it’s only in the shower for our own...

The Psalms as Songs

This week’s Bible study looked at the fact that the Psalms are not only poems (designed to be read aloud and which use a variety of poetic features such as parallelism, metaphor and acrostics to engage our memories and our emotions) but also songs. The Psalms contain...